Luke 13:28

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit: What is it? Who is guilty of it?

/ Sandra L. Butler

Blasphemy, according to the Jews who accused Jesus of it, is to make oneself equal with God, which Jesus never did. Blasphemy is of the Holy Spirit, which is to be against the Holy Spirit; against the Power of God. The word “blasphemy” (Strong’s Concordance of the Bible) means “to speak evil,” going back to the primary verb, meaning, “to hinder, to injure, hurt.” To speak evil of the Holy Spirit is to speak a lie when it comes to the Holy Spirit—a lie that serves only to hinder, injure, and hurt (on a soul-level) the one who has accepted it. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is unforgivable because the lie pertaining to the Holy Spirit has prevented mankind from doing the works through which he would obtain salvation.

“…Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” John 10:32,33

Jesus brings their attention to the works. But their attention is on the man. That’s carnal. That’s religion. Jesus is the word of God, synonymous with the works of God… If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.” John 10:37,38. Clearly, Jesus does not care if we believe him, or in him, as Paul teaches. That’s the carnal religious mind. When Jesus said, “I and my Father are one” in John 10:30, he was not saying that he, a man, is equal to God. Jesus is saying that he and his Father are one when it comes to the works of his Father—to the creation, made through God’s word, which Jesus is.

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is to speak evil of the Holy Spirit, which one does by speaking a lie with regard to the Holy Spirit. It was in Ephesus that Paul told the great lie that would hinder Christians from doing the works of the Father, through which they would have received true salvation. Paul, in Acts 19:2, asks the disciples of John… Have ye received the Holy Spirit since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Spirit.” This was not a concept the disciples of John were familiar with. It was Paul’s concept. And Paul’s definition of “believe” is not the same as Jesus’ definition of “believe.” According to Paul, salvation comes by believing in the carnal man, and in accepting that the shedding of his carnal blood has somehow atoned for their sins. But according to Jesus, one must “believe the works“ to obtain salvation, the word “believe” meaning, “to obey, put action to.” Salvation without works versus salvation through works. Paul versus Jesus. Lie versus Truth. This is why the works of the first church, Ephesus, is to find those that say they are apostles, but are not, liars. Christians can go no further in completing the works until they find Paul a liar. How did Paul come up with the concept that one receives the Holy Spirit following baptism? Through a misconception of what Peter said, whose words lay the solid rock foundation upon which Jesus would build his church, which is spiritual!.

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” Acts 2:38

It is not the Holy Spirit or Ghost one receives. It is the gift of the Holy Spirit. The teacher of the first revelation illustrated it this way: There’s a knock at the door. You answer the door. A man hands you a gift. The man is not the gift. The man delivers the gift. The Holy Spirit is not the gift. The Holy Spirit delivers the gift. In the mid-seventies, the teacher took us to a Pentecostal Church, where we witnessed this “getting the Holy Ghost.” The history of the churches is encoded in the stories of the Old Testament, the reason for the first revelation. Pentecost is Onan, second son of Judah, who wasted the seed, spilling it on the ground. What we observed that day was spiritual onanism, the word onanism meaning of one’s self, self-generated— “Oneness Pentecostalism.” There was no holy seed being sown through Holy Spirit; there was no gift of the holy Spirit being delivered in this place. It was all being self-generated through the iniquity of the mind, just like it was in Ephesus. Paul tells the disciples of John (who received John’s baptism of repentance) that they should now believe on him who comes after John, on Christ Jesus, telling them that they will receive the Holy Spirit following their baptism. They believe Paul, and are baptized in the name, after which Paul lays hands on them, and they speak with tongues. The power of suggestion. A mockery of what took place on the day of Pentecost two thousand years ago, which is still taking place in Pentecostal churches around the world. Jesus said, I came in my Father’s name, as it is the son that carries on the surname of his father. “In Isaac shall the seed be called.” Romans 9:7. Isaac was the son or seed of Abraham as Jesus was the son or seed of God, the word called means to bid, call forth, whose surname was called. The father and the son share the same surname. God and Jesus share the same surname, Jesus or Jehoshua, the literal name assigned to God’s family— the family name, which one could be adopted into through a physical baptism. Isaac is not just the son of Abraham, it’s a period of time, the “era of Isaac,” a teaching of the second revelation, an era that began at the coming of Jesus, who was mocked for his spiritual teachings. Isaac represents the promise, but the word means mockery. God’s word has been mocked by religion for over two thousand years.

In Acts 2:38, Peter is talking about physical baptism in the name. It was the Pentecostal Church that had their eyes opened to the true baptism, which explains why the teacher was given a vision of a Pentecostal Church, where he was to be baptized. The existing baptism was “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” a mistranslation of Matthew 28:19, which wasn’t an instruction on how to be baptized, but an instruction to teach the three baptism: baptism in the name, baptism of the son, and baptism of the holy spirit. No man has the power to baptize us of the Son, or of the Holy Spirit, which are spiritual baptisms, making this baptism, illegitimate, based on a lie, which is why revelation of the true baptism was necessary. The Priest or Pastor claims to have the power to baptize someone of the Holy Spirit, which sounds like blasphemy to me. How is this any different than Paul, who I suspect was the one who baptized the disciples of John in the name, and then proclaims they received the Holy Spirit after he lays his hands on them, suggesting that the power to receive the Holy Spirit was coming through Paul. Where do you think the Church, who teaches Paul’s doctrine, got it from? The hand symbolizes power, but no man has the power to baptize us of the Holy Spirit by laying his hands on us. Our “baptism of the Holy Spirit” is spiritual— an internal immersion through which we experience our “baptism of the Son“— immersed in the word; immersed in truth— the gift we receive during the time we are being baptized or immersed in holy spirit— “the gift of the Holy Spirit.” We see the three baptisms in Jesus’ baptism. We have John, representing the baptism of repentance. We have the baptism of the Son, literally. And we have the baptism of the Holy Spirit, symbolized by the dove that descended upon Jesus.

It was the Pentecostal Church (Judah of the Gentiles) that reverted to the lie pertaining to the Son. Iniquity that started with the Catholic Church (Israel of the Gentiles) with their “Mary, the Mother of God.” Jesus is not God. The Pentecostal Church is also responsible for perpetuating Paul’s iniquity pertaining to the Holy Spirit. It is not the Holy Spirit one receives. As long as this two-fold iniquity persists in the mind of the Christian, there can be no baptism of the Son or baptism of the Holy Spirit, no sowing of holy seed through a holy power, as spoken by Jesus, the holy seed— I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity” Matthew 7:23. The word knew means intercourse — “Adam knew Eve, and she conceived…” The Pentecostal Church would add insult to injury with even more iniquity, claiming to be born of the spirit or born again. “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” John 3:7,8. Jesus uses the wind, symbolizing spirit, to reveal the nature of spirit. The wind blows. You can hear the sound of it, but you can’t tell from which direction it came, or in which direction it went, a characteristic of someone who is born of the spirit or born again— “that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. You can’t see spirit. They are not born of the spirit or born again. Jesus is saying that there is a spiritual birth that must take place. To be born of th Spirit in the Kingdom of God, one must first be of Spirit, requiring the removal of the invisible sinful flesh formed by our many false beliefs. We become more and more of Spirit with each false belief we overcome through the conception of truth in that spiritual womb called the heart. IF our spiritual sinful flesh is removed through the spiritual death of our false beliefs, we will be born of the Spirit (born again) upon the death of our sinful physical flesh. To say that we are born of the Spirit before we have done the works required to be born of the Spirit, is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. The followers of Paul, who teaches salvation without works, are forfeiting their spiritual birthright— their right to be born of the Spirit in the Kingdom of God.

The Catholic Church and Her Offshoots make up Israel of the Gentiles (Moab and Ammon). Moab means from (her [the mother’s] father, the incestuous son of Lot. The word Ammon means inbred, referring to the inbred thoughts (iniquities) of the Church. The Pentecostal Church is Judah of the Gentiles (Edom). The first king of Judah was Rehoboam, meaning, a people has enlarged. It was the tribe of Judah that enlarged. And it was the born again and saved doctrine of the Pentecostal Church that enlarged, spreading like wild-fire throughout Christendom. The Prophet Isaiah speaks of the absurd concept of being born before one has experienced the pain of birth, which is brought on by tribulation, a “time of trouble,” which the Prophet Daniel spoke of (12:1). Pre-tribulation or post-tribulation, an ongoing debate among those of religion. There’s both. Some are experiencing a spiritual, internal, tribulation, which can take many forms, causing them to cry out and be delivered of the false beliefs and painful emotions that caused their tribulation to begin with, through which they enter an exalted emotional state— a spiritual rapture. But for those of religion, who are still holding on to false beliefs, it will be the physical, external, tribulation that will cause them to cry out and be delivered of the false beliefs they once believed would save them. According to the Prophet Jeremiah, they will come to know that they are not saved— “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” (8:20). If you have accepted this spiritually destructive doctrine of Judah, get out— Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:…” Matthew 24:16. “Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4. This is not just a warning to come out of the Catholic Church. This is a warning to come out from the doctrine of the Mother Church, “Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots…” Every Christian religion was born of the Catholic Church because every Christian religion teaches the same “half-baked” no works, doctrine of Paul. “Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom. Genesis 36:8. The word Seir means tempestuous, rough. It’s about to get rough for those who have bought into the born again and saved doctrine spread by the Pentecostal Church, Judah of the Gentiles (Edom). “Jacob did not steal Esau’s birthright. Esau forfeited it,” a teaching of the first revelation. Esau forfeited his birthright for red pottage, which translates to dangerous arrogance. To claim that we are born again and saved or already spirit and perfected before we have completed the works through which we would enter this exalted state, is spiritual arrogance, which is dangerous because it is through these spiritual works that we obtain the healing, salvation, of our soul. It’s also blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus, the word, was imbued with the Christ when the Spirit of God descended upon him in the form of a dove. Christ is not a person, which Jesus himself warns us about— “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.” Matthew 24:23. Christ is a healing power, which is activated within when the Spirit of God and the word of God come together during our two spiritual baptisms. Christ is not a person. The same goes for “the antichrist,” the spirit working in the person guilty of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, through which they are unwittingly fighting against “the christ,” preventing it from accomplishing its purpose, which is to heal us on a soul (mind and heart) level. This can only take place through the christ— the power of creation, through which “a new heaven and a new earth,” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart” is formed within us, the “first heaven and the first earth” we formed through false perceptions and beliefs, passing away—the unholy creation responsible for mankind’s declining mental, emotional, and physical, health. Being baptized in the literal name was appropriate in the carnal “era of Isaac.” But we have entered the spiritual “era of Jacob,” in which we are to be baptized in the spiritual name— “And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.” Revelation 19:13. We are to be immersed in the word of God, which is truth, through which we become a spiritual son of God— the son symbolizing the complete development or maturation of the soul through the highest degree of the conception of truth in that spiritual womb called the heart, through which are health is recovered. “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” Acts 2:38. Cancer is sin materialized; one eating away at our physical life, as the other eats away at our spiritual life. It is no coincidence that light is being used in the treatment of cancer, the word laser compared with lazar, one afflicted with disease, from Lazarus. Physical light can put the cancer of the body in remission. But it will take spiritual light to put the cancer of the soul in remission, the light of truth healing the soul, the mind and heart, which in turn, heals the body. Disease is the result of a separation from God’s Spiritual Law. Not to be confused with the Mosaic Law; a carnal law the children of Israel (chosen to represent us the people) placed upon themselves through spiritual disobedience. God’s Spiritual Law existed before Moses, who demonstrated the breaking of God’s Commandments as he came down off the mount, which Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who existed before Moses, kept through spiritual obedience. Two Laws. Two Kingdoms— “There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God and you yourselves thrust out.” Luke 13:28. To enter the kingdom of God without, we must first enter it within, the kingdom of God symbolizing the realm of the Heart, where the healing takes place.

“Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Jeremiah 8:22.. The word daughter takes us to the word ben, a son (as a builder of the family name). The daughter refers to the soul that has yet to reach full maturity through its healing, which is salvation of the soul. It takes more spiritual development to become a son, the twelve sons of Jacob, which are the twelve tribes of Israel, revealing the process: “And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Matthew 19:28. Those who follow Jesus by judging the twelve tribes of Israel become sons of God, Benjamin, Jacob’s last son, meaning,son of (the)right hand, the right hand symbolizing power—son of the Power of God. The regeneration is the process of forming “a new heaven and a new earth” symbolizing“a new mind and a new heart,” which takes place through the judgment, through which our spiritual life is restored to the condition in which we received it at birth. It is the health of God’s people that has not recovered, and God refers to them as such because they sought God in the only way they knew how, which was through religion. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Hosea 4:6 . Once again, God is speaking of the people of religion, which does not teach the spiritual knowledge that provides the instruction through which the health of the soul is restored, so the destruction is spiritual, a cancer that is destroying our spiritual life. “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” Hebrews 9:27. Those who complete the judgment while on earth die a spiritual death; the death of their false religious and personal beliefs, entering the reality of the kingdom of God upon their physical death. Those who do not judge themselves while on earth will have their judgment in the kingdom of heaven upon their physical death. “Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?” The name Gilead was given to teacher of the first revelation, knowledge that exposed the error in Church doctrine, which provides no instruction for our healing. That would require revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible; an in-depth understanding of biblical symbolism, which does provide the instruction through which we are healed. We become the physician, healing ourselves, found in the meaning of the word saved: heal, save (self), be (make) whole. There is balm in Gilead IF we apply the instruction. I began receiving the revelation in 1998, along with a dream in which I set down in front of me a white pearl-like jar. It contains balm. I look up at an old lady with white hair. She says to me—“Mystery of mysteries. Give her the key to open these mysteries.” Now that we have the spiritual knowledge, which provides the instruction, we can apply it. All the labor of gathering in of the corn, symbolizing the spiritual knowledge, has been done. Those who believe (obey) the instruction are the laborers that come in at the eleventh hour, receiving the same reward, which is to born of the Spirit in the kingdom of God.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2026

THE NUMBER 144 – THE YEAR 2025 – THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL (edited version)

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People have been seeing the number 144 lately, and there’s a reason for that. It’s a biblical number, so the Bible is where we will find the true meaning of the number. It has nothing to do with the mind; with consciousness. It has to do with the heart; with the subconscious. The number 144 is not associated with the “kingdom of heaven,” symbolizing the “realm of the mind”. The number 144 is associated with the “kingdom of God,” symbolizing the “realm of the Heart.” 

For those of you who are not familiar with my story… in 1975 I met a man of no religion, who had a unique interpretation of the Bible. So intrigued by this knowledge, I spent the next 19 years taking in the teachings of the revelation he received between 1960 and 1974. One evening, during Bible Study, in or around 1976, the Teacher told each of us what we represented or what our gift was. When he pointed to me, he said, “gift of knowledge.” That turned out to be true, as it was spiritual knowledge I was gifted with between 1998 and 2005 through revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible. In 1981, the man who the Teacher (in 1978) said would be coming to the group, arrived. One night, he pointed to him and said, “The Heart, there it sets, right there.” I like that he used the word “sets” instead of “sits,” indicating that this is not about the man, but about what the man represented. His sun sign is Leo, representing the Heart. We married in 1988, a representation of the union between THE HEART and SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE…

The Heart is the spiritual womb, which is female. Spiritual knowledge is the seed or word of God (Luke 8:11), which is male. Intercourse or communication between the two results in the conception of spiritual truth, which should have taken place in the heart of the people two thousand years ago, but it was rejected by the carnal mind of those of religion, first by the Jews, and then by the Gentiles. Fast forward ten years, to 1998, when I had a dream [FIRST SIGN]…  I was getting a gynecological exam. I looked over at a table and saw the number 64. The head nurse came in the room and said (referring to me) “Because of her age, she’ll be pregnant by January.” Again, this is not about the person, but about what the person represented, which is knowledge, 64 being the number of years from the start of the first revelation: 1960+64 = 2024… “pregnant by January” takes us into the year 2025, when we are to conceive of spiritual knowledge in that spiritual womb called the heart, knowledge that those that identify as God’s people lack, as spoken by the prophet Hosea, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (4:6). I mentioned to my husband that this year, 2025, our ages add up to 144. Then he pointed out that our ages added up to 70 when we got married, and that the Teacher who married us, was 74, which adds up to 144. Marriage is the act of intercourse; when a man and a woman come together and become one flesh. Spiritual marriage or intercourse is communication… 

In December of 2024, I went back on social media after a 7-year hiatus, and found myself in the midst of Jehovah Witnesses, which I now know was not a coincidence because that’s when I learned of Charles Taze Russell, and began an in-depth study of the man and his teachings. His quote, “the truth is progressive, shining more into the perfect day,” suggests that understanding and enlightenment grow gradually, emphasizing the importance of continual learning and revelation. He spoke of the “perfection of knowledge,” referring to the spiritual knowledge we gain through revelation or understanding of the symbolic code of the Bible, which I began sharing on social media in 2000; in the dawn of the new millennium, which marked the beginning of the 7th day; the beginning of the 7th thousandth year since the fall in the garden, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. The word “seven” means “perfect.” The 7th day is the perfect day, when the truth of God’s Word is made perfect through spiritual knowledge, which those of religion lack, being behind what I call “the veil of religious iniquity”… 

As I continued to research Charles Taze Russell, I came across something that I believe was by design, something that would connect Russell to my teacher, Gilbert Loman Stiles. On October 2nd 1914, Russell announced that the “Gentile Times” had ended. Stiles was born on October 2nd 1914. In 1975 he announced to our little Bible Study group that the Gentile Israel and Judah were cut off. The years 1914 and 1975 marked important events, which Russell and his successors, misinterpreted… The number 144 shows up in the ages of these two men, which my husband also pointed out. Russell died at age 64 and Stiles at age 80, their ages adding up to 144. Russell was born in 1852, dying in 1916, and Stiles was born in 1914, dying in 1994, resulting in a 2-year overlap. Total years between them (1852-1994)=142. Add in the 2-year overlap=144. These two men were instrumental in the progression of spiritual knowledge, encouraging their students to continue to learn, and to be open to the possibility of more revelation, moving beyond what they had been taught in search of a deeper spiritual understanding of God’s Word… 

[It was Charles Taze Russel that brought our attention to the 144,000, an important piece of the puzzle].

144 is a spiritual measure, “the measure of a man” (Revelation 21:17). “And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” (Matthew 19:28). The number 12 represents judgment. Judging the 12 tribes of Israel formulates to 12 x 12 = 144. The “regeneration” is the process through which a new creation is formed inside of us. There were six days in the creation of heaven and earth (not to be taken literally). A day is 24 hours. Six days formulates to 6 x 24 = 144. Our new creation comes into existence through the judgment, our six (metaphorical) days of (spiritual or internal) works outlined in the first six churches in the book of Revelation. The work of the first church in Ephesus (where Paul spread his lie pertaining to the holy Spirit) is to find those that say they are apostles, but are not, liars. Paul was made apostle to the Gentiles, the three main Christian religions (Catholic, Trinity, and Pentecost) making up the Gentile Israel and Judah that was cut off in one day in 1975. But Paul’s doctrine of lies lives on in the mind of the Christian, “the veil of religious iniquity” that prevents him from seeing the spiritual truth of God’s Word. To see it they will have to experience a spiritual “apocalypse,” which means, “lifting of the veil.” 

A vision of God’s Kingdom was seen by Stiles on 7-7-77. There were “twelve columns,” symbolizing the judgment, all twelve tribes accounted for… One night, which would have been after 1981, the Teacher spoke on the Kingdom, which he had never done before, not even after receiving the vision. He spoke of the wall around the city, which like the wall that measures “an hundred and forty and four cubits” is a glorified body, which those in the city, being of pure spirit, must pass through to interact with those in the kingdom of heaven, which are in varying degrees of a type of flesh that can be seen in the spiritual realm. Adam and Eve existed in a spiritual realm, but when they disobeyed God’s word they received “coats of skins,” which were not animal skins, but physical flesh bodies that grounded them to the physical realm. Seeing themselves as naked, they hid themselves. “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear…” Revelation 3:18. The fire symbolizes God’s judgment, which consumes the sinful flesh that has been formed inside of our physical flesh.

The two tribes associated with the city are Joseph and Benjamin, representing the two divine attributes of God, which is the Christ, the healing power through which we do the spiritual works that are synonymous with the judgment, through which we form a new creation; “a new heaven and a new earth” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” which is salvation, the healing of the soul… Having been purified through the judgment, they enter a glorified state. They make up the wall of the city. They have judged themselves while on earth, reaching a spiritual measure of 144 in the 1,000-year reign of Christ, which began with the new millennium. They make up the 144,000, which Russell referred to as “the body of The seed.”

“The seed, The seed, The seed,” which Stiles heard in 1960. “What about the seed,” he asked. And with that, his understanding was opened. The seed is the gift of the holy Spirit, the Spirit being the Energy that sows the seed or word of truth in our heart if we don’t resist it. Stiles received the seed in the form of the revelatory knowledge he received over a period of fifty days prior to his baptism in a Pentecostal church he saw in a vision. What happened to him following his baptism on October 30th, 1960 matched the image of what Pentecostal refer to as “getting the Holy Ghost,” but it is not the holy Ghost or holy Spirit one receives following baptism, as Paul teaches. Stiles referred to what happened to him that night as “getting the seed.” Those who have “The seed” are in the city, as long as the window to enter the city remains open… The 1,000 years given to man to reach a spiritual measure of 144 through God’s judgment is not to be taken literally, as it is written, “… except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” Matthew 24:22. The trumpet has sounded. The time to ascend the mount is upon us. There is only ONE WAY to ascend the mount and enter the door that leads to the kingdom of God, which is through God’s judgment. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” John 10:1. We will be stealing from ourselves, robbing ourselves of our highest potential, which is eternal life in the kingdom of God.

“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.” Luke 13:28

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2025  (edited version)

THE NUMBER 144 – THE YEAR 2025 – THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL

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People have been seeing the number 144 lately, and there’s a reason for that. It’s a biblical number, so the Bible is where we will find the true meaning of the number. It has nothing to do with the mind; with consciousness. It has to do with the heart; with the subconscious. The number 144 is not associated with the “kingdom of heaven,” symbolizing the “realm of the mind.” Two thousand years ago, the cry was, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” the number 120 associated with the day Pentecost. Moses died at 120. The Law was to end with the passing of Moses. It was time to make the transition from the wilderness, symbolizing the mind, to the promised land, symbolizing the heart. The days of flesh are “an hundred and twenty” (Genesis 6:3), referring to the veil of spiritual flesh that has been formed inside of our physical flesh, which can only be removed through spiritual circumcision of the heart, which the prophet Jeremiah spoke of (4:4), through which one reaches the spiritual measure of 144.

For those of you who are not familiar with my story… in 1975 I met a man of no religion, who had a unique interpretation of the Bible. So intrigued by this knowledge I spent the next 19 years taking in the teachings of the revelation he received between 1960 and 1974. One evening, during Bible Study, in or around 1976, the Teacher told each of us what we represented or what our gift was. When he pointed to me, he said, “gift of knowledge.” That turned out to be true, as it was spiritual knowledge I was gifted with between 1998 and 2005 through revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible. In 1981, the man who the Teacher (in 1978) said would be coming to the group, arrived. One night, he pointed to him and said, “The Heart, there it sets, right there.” I like that he used the word “sets” instead of “sits,” indicating that this is not about the man, but about what the man represented. His sun sign is Leo, representing the Heart. We married in 1988, a representation of the union between THE HEART and  SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE.  

Fast forward ten years, to 1998, when I had a dream, which I only recently came to understand the meaning of. I was getting a gynecological exam. I looked over at a table and saw the number 64. The head nurse came in the room and said (referring to me) “Because of her age, she’ll be pregnant by January.” Again, this is not about the person, but about what the person represented, which is knowledge, 64 being the number of years from the start of the first revelation: 1960 + 64 = 2024… “pregnant by January” takes us into the year 2025, when we are to conceive of spiritual knowledge in that spiritual womb called the heart, knowledge that those that identify as God’s people lack, as spoken by the prophet Hosea, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (4:6). I mentioned to my husband that this year, 2025, our ages add up to 144. Then he pointed out that our ages added up to 70 when we got married, and that the Teacher who married us, was 74, which adds up to 144. Marriage is the act of intercourse; when a man and a woman come together and become one flesh. Spiritual marriage or intercourse is communication. The Heart is the spiritual womb, which is female. Spiritual knowledge is the seed or word of God (Luke 8:11), which is male. Intercourse or communication between the two results in the conception of spiritual truth, which should have taken place in the heart of the people two thousand years ago, but it was rejected by the carnal mind of those of religion, first by the Jews, and then by the Gentiles.

In December of 2024 I went back on social media after a 7-year hiatus, and found myself in the midst of Jehovah Witnesses, which I now know was not a coincidence because that’s when I learned of Charles Taze Russell, and began an in-depth study of the man and his teachings. His quote, “the truth is progressive, shining more into the perfect day,” suggests that understanding and enlightenment grow gradually, emphasizing the importance of continual learning and revelation. He spoke of the “perfection of knowledge,” referring to the spiritual knowledge we gain through revelation or understanding of the symbolic code of the Bible, which I began sharing on social media in 2000; in the dawn of the new millennium, which marked the beginning of the 7th day; the beginning of the 7th thousandth year since the fall in the garden, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. The word “seven” means “perfect.” The 7th day is the perfect day, when the truth of God’s Word is made perfect through spiritual knowledge, which those of religion lack, being behind what I call “the veil of religious iniquity.”

As I continued to research Charles Taze Russell I came across something that I believe was by design, something that would connect Russell to my teacher Gilbert Loman Stiles. On October 2nd 1914 Russell announced that the “Gentile Times” had ended. Stiles was born on October 2nd 1914. In 1975 he announced to our little Bible Study group that the Gentile Israel and Judah were cut off. The years 1914 and 1975 marked important events, which Russell and his successors, misinterpreted. He left the Christian religion, but unwittingly brought some soul-destroying Christian beliefs with him, placing him behind “the veil of religious iniquity,” which prevented him from seeing things clearly. The number 144 shows up in the ages of these two men, which my husband also pointed out. Russell died at age 64 and Stiles at age 80, their ages adding up to 144. Russell was born in 1852, dying in 1916, and Stiles was born in 1914, dying in 1994, resulting in a 2-year overlap. Total years between them (1852-1994)=142. Add in the 2-year overlap=144. These two men were instrumental in the progression of spiritual knowledge, encouraging their students to continue to learn, and to be open to the possibility of more revelation, moving beyond what they had been taught in search of a deeper spiritual understanding of God’s Word. While Russell had one foot in religion by bringing the doctrine of the Christian religion, Paul’s doctrine, with him, Stiles was of no religion, and what was revealed to him about Paul was that he was a liar. I see these two men (born within two hundred miles of each other) as two witnesses advocating for and contributing to the progression and perfection of spiritual knowledge. Russell prophesied of the end of the Gentiles. Stiles announced its fulfillment. The word “Paul” (made apostle to the Gentiles) means “come to an end.”

144 is a spiritual measure, “the measure of a man” (Revelation 21:17). “And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Matthew 19:28. The number 12 represents judgment. Judging the 12 tribes of Israel formulates to 12 x 12 = 144. The “regeneration” is the process through which a new creation is formed inside of us. There were six days in the creation of heaven and earth (not to be taken literally). A day is 24 hours. Six days formulates to 6 x 24 = 144. Our new creation comes into existence through the judgment, our six (metaphorical) days of (spiritual or internal) works outlined in the first six churches in the book of Revelation. The work of the first church in Ephesus (where Paul spread his lie pertaining to the holy Spirit) is to find those that say they are apostles, but are not, liars. Paul was made apostle to the Gentiles, the three main Christian religions (Catholic, Trinity, and Pentecost) making up the Gentile Israel and Judah that was cut off in one day in 1975. But Paul’s doctrine of lies lives on in the mind of the Christian, “the veil of religious iniquity” that prevents him from seeing the spiritual truth of God’s Word. To see it they will have to experience a spiritual “apocalypse,” which means, “lifting of the veil.” 

“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.” God’s kingdom is being set up on earth, just not in the way the carnal religious mind would interpret it. The return of Jesus to the earth is the return of truth to the heart, taking place in those who are engaged in God’s judgment, overcoming their false religious and personal beliefs, through which they reach a spiritual measure of 144, ascending beyond the kingdom of heaven. Jesus tells us who is the least and who is great in the kingdom of heaven: “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:19. Paul taught the people to reject the law that contains the commandments, replacing God’s law with his own law, which he calls “the law of Christ,” found only in the Pauline Epistles. Evidence of Paul’s rejection of the law is found in a commentary on the book of Habakkuk, who wrote in 626 BCE, a contemporary of Jeremiah the prophet, who wrote from 627 to 585 BCE, the commentary written in the late 1st century BCE, found in the Dead Sea Scrolls: “Those who were unfaithful together with the Liar, [who] did not listen to the word received by the Righteous Teacher from the mouth of God” and “who were silent at the time of the chastisement of the Righteous Teacher and did not aid him against the Liar who rejected the Law in the midst of all their Assembly…” No historical personages are mentioned by name because it’s a prophesy yet to be fulfilled.

Clement, who traveled with Peter, reveals that the ‘Righteous Teacher” was James, the brother of our Lord. And in a letter to Clement, Peter wrote this of Paul: “bad instruction, vain boasting, and other such evils have filled the whole house of this world like some enormous smoke preventing those who dwell in it from seeing the Founder aright.” Jesus was the Founder of Jewish Christianity. Paul was the founder of Gentile Christianity. Jesus chose the twelve to spread his gospel among the Jews. Paul was chosen apostle to the Gentiles, where he spread his own gospel, which is why Jesus said, “salvation is of the Jews.” Those who have left Pauline Christianity in favor of keeping the commandments, encouraging others to do so, “shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven,” while those who have accepted Paul’s “law of Christ,” selling others on a made-up law that requires no works, “shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.” Both camps have an opportunity to ascend beyond the kingdom of heaven. Jesus said he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. What fulfills the law is not Jesus, but the spiritual works that are synonymous with Jesus, which if believed (obeyed) perfects the law, completing it. “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works.”John 10:38. What are the works of the Father? Creation, made through God’s word; through God’s seed, which Jesus is. It is through the creation of a new heaven and earth that the first heaven and earth we formed through false perceptions and beliefs passes away, which is what Jesus was referring to when he said, “till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” They were to keep the carnal works of the law until they were fulfilled through the spiritual works of God’s spiritual judgment.

Those who follow Jesus’ instruction by judging the twelve tribes of Israel, through which they reach the spiritual measure of 144, ascend beyond the kingdom of heaven. They enter the “kingdom of God,” symbolizing the “realm of the Heart” while in the physical realm, entering the reality of the kingdom of God in the spiritual realm, having completed the internal works that are synonymous with the judging of the twelve tribes of Israel. There are many interpretations when it comes to the number 144, and to the number 144,000. If they claim that the number is a literal number, whether of people or angels, if they associate the number with consciousness, with the energy of the body, or with a frequency at which the body is to resonate, it falls under a mind-body discipline, which is associated with the kingdom of heaven, not with the kingdom of God. The beheading of John the Baptist two thousand years ago illustrated the end of purification through mind-body disciplines; through perpetual prayers, ritualistic baths, and dietary restrictions, which is why John said he must decrease so Jesus could increase. According to Jesus, it is not what enters in from the outside that makes us impure, but what proceeds out of our heart, which is made pure through God’s judgment, by judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

A vision of God’s Kingdom was seen by Stiles on 7-7-77. There were “twelve columns,” symbolizing the judgment, all twelve tribes accounted for. Three below the mount. Seven on the mount. Two above the mount, in the city. The twelve columns are between the mount (the kingdom of heaven) and the city. One night, which would have been after 1981, the Teacher spoke on the Kingdom, which he had never done before, not even after receiving the vision. He spoke of the wall around the city, which like the wall that measures “an hundred and forty and four cubits” is a glorified body, which those in the city, being of pure spirit, must pass through to interact with those in the kingdom of heaven, which are in varying degrees of a type of flesh that can be seen in the spiritual realm. Adam and Eve existed in a spiritual realm, but when they disobeyed God’s word they received “coats of skins,” which were not animal skins, but physical flesh bodies that grounded them to the physical realm. Seeing themselves as naked, they hid themselves. “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear…” Revelation 3:18. The fire symbolizes God’s judgment, which consumes the sinful flesh that has been formed inside of our physical flesh.

The two tribes associated with the city are Joseph and Benjamin, representing the two divine attributes of God, which is the Christ, the healing power through which we do the spiritual works that are synonymous with the judgment, through which we form a new creation; “a new heaven and a new earth” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” which is salvation, the healing of the soul: the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought and emotion. Those that come out of the tribulation are right outside of Joseph and Benjamin, which tells me that its tribulation (within or without) that brings on the birth of this new creation from within, the “time of trouble” that Daniel (meaning, God is my judge) spoke of in the twelfth and final chapter. Having been purified through the judgment they enter a glorified state. They make up the wall of the city. They have judged themselves while on earth, reaching a spiritual measure of 144 in the 1,000-year reign of Christ, which began with the new millennium. They make up the 144,000, which Russell referred to as “the body of The seed.”

“The seed, The seed, The seed,” which Stiles heard in 1960. “What about the seed,” he asked. And with that, his understanding was opened. The seed is the gift of the holy Spirit, the Spirit being the Energy that sows the seed or word of truth in our heart if we don’t resist it. Stiles received the seed in the form of the revelatory knowledge he received over a period of fifty days prior to his baptism in a Pentecostal church he saw in a vision. What happened to him following his baptism on October 30th, 1960 matched the image of what Pentecostal refer to as “getting the Holy Ghost,” but it is not the holy Ghost or holy Spirit one receives following baptism, as Paul teaches. Stiles referred to what happened to him that night as “getting the seed.” Those who have “The seed” are in the city, as long as the window to enter the city remains open. I was shown that God’s kingdom closes from the top down. The 1,000 years given to man to reach a spiritual measure of 144 through God’s judgment is not to be taken literally, as it is written, “… except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” Matthew 24:22. The trumpet has sounded. The time to ascend the mount is upon us. There is only ONE WAY to ascend the mount and enter the door that leads to the kingdom of God, which is through God’s judgment. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” John 10:1. We will be stealing from ourselves, robbing ourselves of our highest potential, which is eternal life in the kingdom of God.

“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.” Luke 13:28

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2025